Main Purpose

Acting as a key role in managing and optimizing the balance between demand and supply. This position involves forecasting demand and ensure supply availability to meet business objectives. The candidate is essential for enhancing operational efficiency and boosting profitability through on-time delivery, strategic inventory management and planning parameters’ accuracy.

Duties and responsibilities

Demand Planning

• Developing accurate demand forecasts and collaborating with HQ demand planning team.
• Conducting market analysis to understand demand drivers and assessing forecast results.
• Identifying and resolving supply chain constraints and discrepancies between supply and demand.

Supply Planning

• To ensure that optimum level of inventory is maintained to serve all sales channels, whilst minimizing out of stock and overstock.
• Take an analytical planning approach for inventory levels.
• Manage planning metrics in APO/SNP module to secure service level at SKU level.
• Closely monitor On-Time-In-Full supply status of novelties and top sellers by fulfilment measurement. Co-work with HQ distribution planning team for any potential risks that could be foreseen.

Inventory Management

• Oversee China holistic inventory and maintain accurate stock levels at categories/Sub-categories/SKU level.
• Take corresponding actions to minimize excessive and obsolete stock to optimize inventory quality.

Qualifications and core competencies

• 3~5 years supply chain planning working experience in retail industry
• Excellent command of written and spoken English
• Good communication, negotiating capability
• Proficient with Excel, PPT.
• Power BI and Power Query is a plus.